"I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win."
American labor union leader and civil-rights activist. He founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped drive the 1963 March on Washington. He died in 1979.